Question

3. What were factories? Why were these called so​

Answer 1

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, usually a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another

Answer 2

Answer:

The factories consisted of offices and go down . Most of them also had houses of officials and residential quarters for merchants and traders . The factories were called so because the officials of the company were called as factors.

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